Tuscarora White flour corn
$4.00 – $15.00
(Zea mays)
A full-season white flour corn with big, beautiful ears. Usually eight rows of soft, easily ground, very large kernels. Wonderful for cornbread, hominy or parching (cooking like popcorn, only it doesn’t inflate as much). Uses every day of the growing season here; maybe 140 days to maturity.
Wait until soil has warmed to 60° F/15º C to plant. Plant 1-2” deep, four seeds to a hill (10” between them), spaced 40” on centre; or plant in rows 30-40” apart for main season ones, with row spacing of 10-12”. Plants will pollinate for 2-3 weeks after tasseling; separate varieties by at least 500’ or plant successively so they will pollinate at different times. If doing succession plantings, let first variety reach eight-leaf stage before planting the next one. Save seed from at least 100 plants (preferably 200), selecting based on field characteristics of plant, not just on cob size.